If you sketchily poked on over to the Pirate Bay to do a little downloading of a legal, quasi-legal, or outright illegal nature recently, you may have noticed you can't get through. No, your ISP hasn't started blocking it; it's down for everyone, everywhere. Proxies too.

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It's not uncommon for the Pirate Bay (or any site really) to have a spell of downtime now and then, but considering all the enemies the Bay has, there's always that lingering question: "Is this the time it doesn't come back?" So far the Pirate Bay admins haven't weighed in on a cause, but it's probably just a glitch, but you never know with these things. [TorrentFreak]